Recent publications from the Lewison Lab (2003-present):

• Komoroske, L., Lewison, R. L., Seminoff, J.A., Deheyn, D.D., Miles, A.K., and P.H. Dutton. Measuring the effects of coastal habitat degradation on an endangered species: Contaminant impacts on green turtles in an urbanized estuary. Journal of Applied Ecology, in review.
• Wallace, B.W., Lewison, R. L., McDonald, S., McDonald, T., Kot, C. Y., Kelez Sara, S., Bjorkland, R.K., Finkbeiner, E.M., Helmbrecht, S., and L. B. Crowder. Global patterns of fisheries bycatch of marine turtles: implications for research and conservation. Conservation Letters, in review.
• Soykan, C. and R. L. Lewison. An evaluation of community-level indicators for monitoring fishing effects on marine biodiversity. Fish and Fisheries, in review.
• Dunn, D.C., K. Stewart, R. Bjorkland, M. Haughton, S. Singh-Renton, R. L. Lewison, L. Thorne and P.N. Halpin. A regional analysis of coastal fishing effort in the wider Caribbean. Fisheries Research, in revision.
• Moore, J.E., Žydelis R., Soykan, C., McDonald, S. , Lewison R.L., and L. B. Crowder. Quantitative evaluation of fisheries bycatch risk for marine mammals and seabirds. Conservation Biology, in revision.
• Moore, J.E., Cox, T.M, Lewison R.L. , Read A.J., Bjorkland R., McDonald, S.L. , Crowder L.B., Aruna, E. , Ayissi, I. , Espeut, P., Joynson-Hicks, C. , Pilcher, N., Poonian, C., Solarin, B., and J. Kiszka. An interview-based approach to assess marine mammal and sea turtle captures in artisanal fisheries. Biological Conservation, in revision
• Lewison, R. L., C. Soykan, J. Franklin. 2009. Mapping the bycatch seascape: multispecies and multi-scale spatial patterns of fisheries bycatch. Ecological Applications,19(4), 920–930 .
• Moore, J.E., B.P. Wallace, R.L. Lewison, R. Žydelis, T.M. Cox, and L.B. Crowder. 2008. A review of marine mammal,sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in USA fisheries and the role of policy in shaping management. Marine Policy doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.09.003.
• Soykan, C.U., J.E. Moore, R. Žydelis, L.B. Crowder, C. Safina, and R.L. Lewison. 2008. Why Study Bycatch? Endangered Species Research 5: 91–102. doi: 10.3354/esr00175
• Lewison, R., S. Hooker, D. Hodgson, D. Agnew, D. Oro, C. Tisdell, H. Marsh, R. Wilson, B. Godley, S. Cooke, A. Cunningham, J. Matthiopoulos, C. Hammer, J. Seminoff (eds.). 2008. Fisheries bycatch: problems and solutions, ESR Theme Section. Endangered Species Research 5 (2-3).
• Schipper, J, Chanson, J.S., Chiozza, F., Cox, N.A., Hoffmann, M. et al. 2008. The status of the world’s land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge. Science, 322, 225-230.
• Wallace, B. P., S.S. Heppell, R. L. Lewison and S. Kelez. 2008. Using reproductive value analyses to assess relative impacts of fisheries bycatch on loggerhead turtle populations worldwide. Journal of Applied Ecology 45(4), 1076-1085.
• Sims, M., T.C. Cox and R. L. Lewison. 2008. Modeling spatial patterns in fisheries bycatch: Improving bycatch maps to aid fisheries management. Ecological Applications 18(3), 649-661.
• Finkelstein, M., V. Bakker, D.F. Doak, B. Sullivan, R. L. Lewison, W. Satterthwaite, P.B. McIntyre, S. Wolfe, D. Priddel, J.M. Arnold, R.W. Henry, P. Sievert, J. Croxall. 2008. Evaluating the potential effectiveness of compensatory mitigation strategies for marine bycatch. PLOS One, 3(6): e2480.
• Cerling, T.E., J. M. Harris , J. A. Hart, P. Kaleme, H. Klingel, M. G. Leakey, N. E. Levin, R. L. Lewison, B. H. Passey. 2008. Stable isotope ecology of the common hippopotamus. Journal of Zoology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00450.x
• McClusky, S. M. and R. L. Lewison. 2008. Quantifying Fishing Effort: A synthesis of current methods and their applications. Fish and Fisheries 9, 188–200
• Doak D. , V. Bakker, V, M. Finkelstein, B. Sullivan, R. L. Lewison, B. Keitt, J. Arnold, J. Croxall, F. Micheli, M. Sanjayan. 2007. Compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch will do harm, not good. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5, 350-351.
• Cox, T.M., R.L. Lewison, R. Zydelis, L.B. Crowder, C. Safina, A.J. Read. 2007. Comparing Effectiveness of Experimental and Implemented Bycatch Reduction Measures: the Ideal and the Real. Conservation Biology 21:1155–1164.
• Lewison, R. L. and L. B. Crowder 2007. Putting longline bycatch of sea turtles into perspective. Conservation Biology 21: 79-86.
• Lewison, R. L. 2007. Population responses to environmental and human-mediated disturbances: Assessing the vulnerability of the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). African Journal of Ecology 5: 407-415.
• Lewison, R. L., D. Nel, F. Taylor, J.P. Croxall and K. Rivera. 2005. Thinking big—taking a large-scale approach to seabird bycatch. Marine Ornithology 33: 1–5.
• Lewison, R. L., L. B. Crowder , A. Read, and S. Freeman. 2004. Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine megafauna. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19 (11): 598-604.
• Lewison, R. L., L. B. Crowder and S. Freeman. 2004. Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. Ecology Letters, 7: 221-231.
• Lewison, R. L and J. Carter. 2004. Exploring foraging behavior of an unusual megaherbivore: A spatially explicit model of the hippopotamus. Ecological Modelling, 171: 127-138.
• Lewison, R. L and L.B. Crowder. 2003. Estimating fishery bycatch and effects on a vulnerable seabird population. Ecological Applications, 13: 743-753.
• Lewison, R. L., L.B. Crowder, and D.J. Shaver. 2003. The impact of Turtle Excluder Devices and fisheries closures on loggerhead and Kemp’s ridley strandings in the western Gulf of Mexico. Conservation Biology, 17:1089-1097.